A Nouvelle Vague

Abstract

In this discussion about Nouvelle Vague, the author demonstrates that the cinematographic phenomena appeared by chance, between 1959/1960, from a wide reaction against the French cinema. Particularly linked to the criticai Cahiers du Cinema, the movement was consolidated after having excited a complex and paradoxical cinematographic practice involving happenings, ideas, authors, conceptions of direction and low budgets. It also allowed the appearance of a remarkable generation of cinematographers, which is still a reference to the